Nowadays workflow systems are widely deployed around the world, especially within large international corporations. Thus the performance evaluation of these workflow systems becom...
Utility Grids create an infrastructure for enabling users to consume services transparently over a global network. When optimizing workflow execution on utility Grids, we need to c...
Steps in scientific workflows often generate collections of results, causing the data flowing through workflows to become increasingly nested. Because conventional workflow compone...
Timothy M. McPhillips, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Lud&a...
Grid computing provides a very rich environment for scientific calculations. In addition to the challenges it provides, it also offers new opportunities for optimization. In this ...
Bingchen Li, Kang Chen, Zhiteng Huang, H. L. Rajic...
Grid computing intends to share heterogeneous resources in dynamic service-based environments. This kind of systems has the major advantages of enabling rapid composition of distr...